Anderson Street -Some of the streets in the vicinity of the Addington Railway Workshops were named after railway employees. First mentioned in The Press in 1878 when sections in “the great township of Crewe” are advertised for sale. First appears in street directories in 1910.
A bit of information from the library website and I plan on doing more research on this area. A tiny street between the railway line and Blenheim Rd. A business area but some businesses looked like there were people living there. Most of the buildings are fairly new.
Edited 24/11/2019 – It is highly likely that this street was named after John Anderson who was an early settler who came out on the Sir George Seymour from Scotland. He started the company Anderson and Sons Canterbury Foundry. He was the second mayor of Christchurch in 1869 plus served on the Town Council. He was also a shareholder in the Christchurch Gas, Coal and Coke Co, The Press Co Ltd and NZ Shipping Company. He also had interests in Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Assoc, Lyttelton Harbour Board, Canterbury Mechanic Institute and Chamber of Commerce. The sections in the Crewe Township went to auction in December 1880 and they targeted railway workers in many of the ads as the land was next to the Railway Workshops. His company had many contracts connected with construction of the railway in Canterbury. John Anderson died in 1897. There was a steamship called SS John Anderson and there is a fair chance that this ship was named after John Anderson. I checked Papers Past, Ancestry website and Dictionary of NZ Te Ara There is also a Wikipedia page about him.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 